The Titan traffic database is a
database allegedly in use by the Swedish
signals intelligence
Signals intelligence (SIGINT) is intelligence-gathering by interception of ''signals'', whether communications between people (communications intelligence—abbreviated to COMINT) or from electronic signals not directly used in communication ( ...
agency, the
National Defence Radio Establishment (FRA), according to a news report by ''
Rapport'' on
SVT in June 2008, based on an account from an
anonymous source
In journalism, a source is a person, publication, or knowledge other record or document that gives timely information. Outside journalism, sources are sometimes known as "news sources". Examples of sources include but are not limited to officia ...
. The source alleged the agency had been storing "massive amounts of information" about "who have been talking to whom, but no content"; leading to a private citizen lodging a complaint with the police. Ultimately, a prosecutor did not launch a full-scale investigation, as it was deemed not illegal at the time.
See also
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Echelon
ECHELON, originally a secret government code name, is a surveillance program (signals intelligence/SIGINT collection and analysis network) operated by the five signatory states to the UKUSA Security Agreement:Given the 5 dialects that use ...
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MAINWAY
MAINWAY is a database maintained by the United States' National Security Agency (NSA) containing metadata for hundreds of billions of telephone calls made through the largest telephone carriers in the United States, including AT&T, Verizon, and ...
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Military intelligence
Signals intelligence
Privacy of telecommunications
Surveillance scandals
Mass surveillance
Surveillance databases
Databases in Sweden